Business
Human Capital
Workplace Happiness Bootcamp
Workplace Happiness Bootcampby Happiitude & Delivering Happiness was held from 7th - 9th June, 2018 at the Ramada Convention Centre, Mumbai.
2 min |
September 2018
Human Capital
Policies For Leave And Working Hours
Employees are most productive when they achieve work-life balance that enables them to meet their responsibilities outside work.
4 min |
October 2018
Human Capital
The Clairvoyant Leader
Manuel D'Souza, Chief Human Resources Officer, Intelenet Global Services, began his career as an Account manager and is today managing a 55,000 strong workforce in the company. He believes that evolving oneself according to the changing requirements of the business is the true hallmark of a leader and clarity in communication is integral for HR in times of such a transition.
5 min |
October 2018
Human Capital
Centre For Excellence?
The fact that Universities need to remain focussed on rendering quality education, and thereby, work towards becoming centres of excellence is quintessential. While the above remain as the guiding principles for the Founders when setting up an educational Institution, student requirements with respect to placement, industry demand for quality talent, and, the aspirations of the local community try to steer them away from the thought of setting up a centre of excellence.
4 min |
October 2018
Human Capital
The Questioning Quotient
In an increasingly chaotic world, interdependencies only keep increasing since technology generates and shares information in real time. At times, we are struck with many choices that appear to be right, and yet confused, as to which is right.
3 min |
October 2018
Human Capital
Digital Leadership - Leveraging The Uniqueness Of Digital
Human Capital interacted with HR professionals from various domains to gather an understanding on the impact of 'Digital' in the realm of leadership, and the role to be adapted by leaders of today in the wake of a perennial shift in the technology landscape as also the enhanced presence of a techsavvy and younger workforce in today's organisations.
10+ min |
March 2019
Human Capital
Being Humble
Humble leaders possess the remarkable ability to sculpt strategic and integrative perspective plans. They rise from being myopic to being agile and adaptive in execution. They fathom past trends and shifts in the environment with openness and a systemic view.
4 min |
March 2019
Human Capital
The Talent Conundrum
During the SAP SuccessFactors Success Connect conference, Penny Stoker, Global Leader of HR Services at EY, unveiled "Onboarding Buddy", an onboarding AI chat bot that fully integrates with SAP SuccessFactors. The uniqueness of the bot is that it has answers to the otherwise mundane requests from the new employees. While this is definitely the way forward for the HR to rein in AI augmented talent management solutions, it does not exactly give a measure of the amount of penetration required by AI and the balance to be set forth by human intervention.
8 min |
March 2019
Human Capital
Empathy: An Essential Leadership Ingredient
Neuroscientists recognise Cognitive and Emotional empathy as relevant to executive effectiveness. Cognitive empathy is where you understand the other person's perspective while emotional empathy allows you to sense unspoken feelings.
6 min |
March 2019
Human Capital
The Millennials Guide To Work Life Balance
Work life balance is an imperative aspect towards ensuring one's wellbeing. With millennials on a constant quest for success, the ability to achieve harmony between work and life is proving to be increasingly difficult.
3 min |
March 2019
Human Capital
Diversity Matters - Fitting In Or Standing Out
Diversity is, in fact, the new normal. And, this normal works to promote a more creative environment as well. Studies show that racially diverse teams outperform non-diverse ones by 35%, and teams, where men and women are considered equal, create 41% more revenue.
10 min |
August 2018
Human Capital
Leader As Futurist
The organisational boundaries in the 21st century are going to be shaped by companies that are the intermediaries between producers and consumers.
7 min |
August 2018
Human Capital
Innovate Your Way To Non-Stagnation
Todd Rovak states that people, irrespective of age, associate themselves more with Batman since he uses tools, technology, and training to improve himself rather than a Superman, who is born perfect. Rovak, who was appointed the CEO of both Capgemini Consulting and Fahrenheit 212 before he was 40, further states that the Batman vs. Superman lens was often spoken about at Fahrenheit 212 while discussing innovation. He explains that companies following the Superman concept for innovation have an industry standard success rate of 15 percent, while those adopting the Batman theory of 'practice and perfect' can anticipate an 87 percent success rate.
8 min |
September 2017
Human Capital
Data Repositories To The Rescue
Authentic verification of employees, apart from playing an instrumental role in establishing trust in a new hire, also reduces the plausible risk to the reputation and the safety of a company.
3 min |
September 2017
Human Capital
Moving Beyond The Challenges
The war for talent has existed since time immemorial. Only, it has become all the more competitive and fierce today. And, with the very definition of competition changing altogether viz. Ford competing with Google and Apple, Marriot competing with Airbnb, etc., and the talent pool remaining the same, it shall continue to be all the more fierce.
6 min |
September 2017
Human Capital
Bringing Relish To The Impoverished
"The business of life, is life not business", was the belief with which the Ponty Chadha Foundation envisioned institutions so as to make a difference to the community as a whole. Business cannot grow in isolation; instead empowering communities that are directly or indirectly connected with it, can create a huge difference and have an everlasting impact
6 min |
September 2017
Human Capital
An Act Of Misconduct
Misconduct is understood asan unacceptable conduct byan employee while discharging his duty, and can include acts like non-observance of duty, nonperformance of work, negligence, absence without leave, strikes, go-slow, gherao, acts subversive to discipline, insubordination, disobedience, riotous and disorderly behaviour, or damage to property. Misconduct also encompasses acts like theft, dishonesty and fraud, disloyalty, moral turpitude, corruption etc.
3 min |